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* In the ''Film/{{Hitman}}'' movie, 47 initially kidnaps Nika, stuffs her in the trunk with a dead body, drives across Russia with her in there, pulls her out of a restaurant by her hair, and threatens to torture and kill her. She seems strangely attracted to him. It blends with RescueRomance and BodyguardCrush as the body was of the man sent to kill ''her'', and the final scene shows how he killed another Agent sent to kill her. Despite her interest, 47 rejects her advances. It should be noted that he is typically believed to be {{Asexual}}.

* In ''Film/TheHobbit'' fic ''[[Fanfic/TheHeartTrilogy Heart of Fire]]'', [[VillainProtagonist Smaug]] kidnaps the {{Seer}} [[HomelessHero Kathryn]] when he first hears her heavenly singing voice outside Erebor and wants to have it all for himself. They gradually become companionable during the following year, having realized their feelings to each other when Smaug allows Kathryn to leave and enjoy her freedom until she inevitably returns to him.

* A rather complex example happens in ''Film/{{Split}}'' and ''Film/{{Glass}}''. From an outsider's perspective, Casey showing concern for the health of the person who kidnapped her and [[IAmAHumanitarian ate]] her classmates would be a textbook example. However, the kidnapper Kevin has 24 personalities, with himself not the dominant personality. At least half the personalities at any time are innocent being dragged into the schemes of the [[SplitPersonalityTakeover Horde]]. Kevin himself was shocked by the deaths his alters had caused and [[spoiler: begged Casey to kill him in the middle of her kidnapping. It also helps that the [[SuperPoweredEvilSide Beast]] spared Casey when he saw she was clearly [[CommonalityConnection also abused]], meaning not even the most violent of Kevin's personalities wants to hurt her in ''Film/{{Glass}}''.]]

* A rather complex example happens in ''Film/{{Split}}'' and ''Film/{{Glass}}''. From an outsider's perspective, Casey showing concern for the health of the person who kidnapped her and [[IAmAHumanitarian ate]] her classmates would be a textbook example. However, the kidnapper Kevin has 24 personalities, with himself not the dominant personality. At least half the personalities at any time are innocent being dragged into the schemes of the [[SplitPersonalityTakeover Horde]]. Kevin himself was shocked by the deaths his alters had caused and [[spoiler: begged Casey to kill him in the middle of her kidnapping. It also helps that the [[SuperPoweredEvilSide Beast]] spared Casey when he saw she was clearly [[CommanlityConnection also abused]], meaning not even the most violent of Kevin's personalities wants to hurt her in ''Film/{{Glass}}''.]]

* A rather complex example happens in ''Film/{{Split}}'' and ''Film/{{Glass}}''. From an outsider's perspective, Casey showing concern for the health of the person who kidnapped her and [[IAmAHumanitarian ate]] her classmates would be a textbook example. However, the kidnapper Kevin has 24 personalities, with himself not the dominant personality. At least half the personalities at any time are innocent being dragged into the schemes of the [[SplitPersonalityTakeover Horde]]. Kevin himself was shocked by the deaths his alters had caused and [[spoiler: begged Casey to kill him in the middle of her kidnapping. It also helps that the [[SuperPoweredEvilSide Beast]] spared Casey when he saw she was clearly also abused, meaning not even the most violent of Kevin's personalities wants to hurt her in ''Film/{{Glass}}''.]]

* A rather complex example happens in ''Film/{{Split}}'' and ''Film/{{Glass}}''. From an outsider's perspective, Casey showing concern for the health of the person who kidnapped her and [[IAmAHumanitarian ate]] her classmates would be a textbook example. However, the kidnapper Kevin has 24 personalities, with himself not the dominant personality. Kevin himself was shocked by the deaths his alters had caused and [[spoiler: begged Casey to kill him in the middle of her kidnapping. It also helps that the [[SuperPoweredEvilSide Beast]] spared Casey when he saw she was clearly also abused, meaning not even the most violent of Kevin's personalities wants to hurt her in ''Film/{{Glass}}''.]]

* A rather complex example happens in ''Film/{{Split}}'' and ''Film/{{Glass}}''. From an outsider's perspective, Casey showing concern for the health of the person who kidnapped her and [[IAmAHumanitarian ate]] her classmates would be a textbook example. However, the kidnapper Kevin has 24 personalities, with himself not the dominant personality. Kevin himself was shocked by the deaths his alters had caused and begged Casey to kill him in the middle of her kidnapping. It also helps that the [[SuperPoweredEvilSide Beast]] spared Casey when he saw she was clearly also abused, meaning not even the most viscous of Kevin's personalities actually wants to hurt her in ''Film/Glass''.

* The modus operandi of ''many'' yuki-onna in the ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'' universe when it comes to finding a compatible mate.

* Anna Zaires loves this trope. It shows up in her three book series Tormenter Mine, Twist Me and Capture Me.

* ''Film/CannonballRun'': Burt Reynolds kidnaps Farrah Fawcett
* ''Film/TheChase1994'': Charlie Sheen kidnaps Kristy Swanson
* ''Film/ExcessBaggage'': Alicia Silverstone and Benicio Del Toro, though the kidnapping is accidental.
* ''Film/ALifeLessOrdinary'', with Ewan [=McGregor=] kidnapping Cameron Diaz.
* Something of this sort happens in ''Film/NationalTreasure'' with Abigail Chase ending up tagging along with Nicholas Cage.

* In the example pistured, Frank Martin (Creator/JasonStatham) and Lai Kwai (Creator/ShuQi) in ''Film/TheTransporter''. He delivers her to the bad guys in a bag (letting her out at one point, causing her to nearly escape), and goes back to dole out some revenge when they try to blow him up with his car for breaking the agreement. Frank takes Lai with him (while she's bound) after she snuck into his getaway car. She repays him with sexual favors for this. Since he's also responsible for rescuing her, it kinda blends with RescueRomance, but also {{Guile Hero}}ine, as Frank and other characters accuse her of manipulating him into dismantling her father's HumanTrafficking operation.

* ''Film/ThePet'': Phillip and Mary/GG's relationship has elements of this.

* ''Film/TheChase'': Charlie Sheen kidnaps Kristy Swanson

* ''Manga/BlackLagoon'': How Rock joined the Lagoon Company. The fact that his former employers decided that [[HeKnowsTooMuch he knew information that might be inconvenient if it got out]] and tried to kill him really helped.

* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': Scrooge [=McDuck=] and Glittering Goldie in Creator/CarlBarks' "Back to the Klondike". Barks himself couldn't believe what he'd implied after Disney's censors pointed it out to him and fully understood why they initially censored the story. Creator/DonRosa, on the other hand, went into even more details about the month Scrooge held Goldie captive working on his gold claim in "[[ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck The Prisoner of White Agony Creek]]", even adding a DestructoNookie scene. [[MemeticMutation Ya know, for kids!]]

* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', Al first meets with Greed and his chimera underlings by being kidnapped by them. Granted, he never really becomes ''friends'' with Greed, but… Greed (and ''especially'' his underlings) are portrayed as being pretty sympathetic and not actually all ''that'' evil. And their interactions were hilarious. All in all, they actually treated Al pretty decent for a hostage captive. And in the end, Al definitely bonded with and liked the two underlings Dorochet and Martel. Which made [[spoiler:their deaths [[TearJerker all the more tragic]]]].

* Candayce thinks this is what's going on in ''{{Literature/Dinoverse}}'', when her Leptoceratops admirers abduct her away from the company of the other kids-in-dinosaur-bodies. She soon finds it's closer to an attempt at a RescueRomance -- they admire her, and thought she was addled or being kept as food for [[TyrannosaurusRex Mike]] or something.

The implications of this frequently make it an UnequalPairing.

* The backstory of the Creator/JimHenson sitcom ''Aliens in the Family'' is that Doug Brody and his alien scientist wife Cookie met when she [[AlienAbduction abducted him to experiment on]].

'''Tom Sawyer:''' Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on. Kill the women? No; nobody ever saw anything in the books like that. You fetch them to the cave, and you're always as polite as pie to them; and by and by they fall in love with you, and never want to go home any more.

* Frank Martin (Creator/JasonStatham) and Lai Kwai (Creator/ShuQi) in ''Film/TheTransporter''. He delivers her to the bad guys in a bag (letting her out at one point, causing her to nearly escape), and goes back to dole out some revenge when they try to blow him up with his car for breaking the agreement. Frank takes Lai with him (while she's bound) after she snuck into his getaway car. She repays him with sexual favors for this. Since he's also responsible for rescuing her, it kinda blends with RescueRomance, but also {{Guile Hero}}ine, as Frank and other characters accuse her of manipulating him into dismantling her father's HumanTrafficking operation.

* ''Film/KingKong'', or at least the versions where she falls in love with the ape -- i.e. all but the original.

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* ''Comicbook/{{Empowered}}'' meets her LoveInterest ''and'' her best friend this way; they were both [[PunchClockVillain punch clock villains]] who were already bored of the gig anyway.
** The [[LargeHam Caged]] [[AffablyEvil Demonwolf]] might be going through a bit of this as well. He's stuck on Emp's coffee table and can't do a thing about it, but still counts all the people he's trapped with as [[TrueCompanions friends]]; if [[VitriolicBestBuds begrudgingly so]].
* [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Scrooge McDuck]] and Glittering Goldie in Creator/CarlBarks' "Back to the Klondike." Barks himself couldn't believe what he'd implied after Disney's censors pointed it out to him and fully understood why they initially censored the story. Creator/DonRosa, on the other hand, went into even more details about the month Scrooge held Goldie captive working on his gold claim in "[[ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck The Prisoner of White Agony Creek]]," even adding a DestructoNookie scene. [[MemeticMutation Ya know, for kids!]]
* ''ComicBook/UltimateGalactusTrilogy'': In the first arc we saw them, Carol Danvers was conducting the JackBauerInterrogationTechnique on Mahr Vehl. Ignoring how to take out his armor, she placed a plastic explosive on his neck, and was ready to proceed with an alien autopsy if needed. By the time of ''extintion'', they are a couple.

* "Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast" has Beauty agree to stay with the Beast because he threatened to kill her father for stealing one of his roses if she didn't take his place and she, of course, falls in love with him -- which was the Beast's secret intention all along, as he needed a woman to love him to break his curse. Whether or not this could qualify as StockholmSyndrome varies from telling to telling, though it should be noted that almost all tellings have the Beast willingly let Beauty go back to her family at some point and she doesn't come back to him (and in some cases, even ''forgets'' her promise to return within a set time) until she learns his life is in danger.
** It should be noted that to the original audience of Beauty and the Beast and related tales would likely understand the story as an allegory about arranged marriages rather than anything we would recongnize as StockholmSyndrome. The moral would likely be interpreted as a physically undesirable husband (as he was likely to be older than the bride)could still be kind and gentle.

* In ''FanFic/TheTranslationInBlood'' Hannah Shepard (Commander Shepard's mother, assuming the [[MultipleChoicePast Spacer background]]) and Councilor Sparatus met when he captured her during the Occupation of Shanxi. The two gradually grow friendlier and fall in love.

* Nowhere is this more apparent than in Chapter 4 of the Film/{{Stardust}} fanfic "Endings". Yvaine has been forced into a marriage with Prince Septimus, who orders her around and emotionally abuses her every single day (He even takes the time to abuse her on ''the last day of his life''). He tells her she is allowed to leave if she can get down the steps of the castle, but when she finally does, he comes after her. She has literally nowhere else she can go, so she returns with him, starts falling in love with him, and eventually bears his children. [[HereWeGoAgain At the end it's even implied that his son will repeat the process with another star that has just fallen to Earth]].

* For a Comedy AU, ''Fanfic/WhiteSheepRWBY'' bluntly acknowledges this is how [[BigBad Salem]] and [[NiceGuy Nicholas Arc]] met -- people are constantly reminding Jaune that his mom abducted his dad, locked him up in her dungeon and sexed him into submission. They ''are'' quite HappilyMarried, nonetheless.

* ''Film/KingKong'', or at least the versions where she falls in love with the ape-- i.e. all but the original.

* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''

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* Inverted in ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard 2}}'', where [[TheHero Nowe's]] first real experience with Manah is taking and holding her captive. In the brief conversation that follows, ''she'' turns ''his'' entire worldview upside down, and he defects the army to join her rebellion and eventually become her LoveInterest immediately after her escape. [[spoiler:Deconstructed in the supplemental material; they eventually broke up because they couldn't come to terms with all the traumatizing stuff that gave them (inverted) StockholmSyndrome in the first place.]]

* VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic:

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* In ''Franchise/{{Noob}}'', this happened between two characters whose mere acquaitance is a spoiler for the webseries and novel versions of the story: [[spoiler:Master Zen and Nazetrîme. The player behind Master Zen is an escaped prisonner and ended up hiding in a house that belonged to Nazetrîme's player. When the player behind Nazetrîme came home, Master Zen's tied her up to keep from being discovered. Stockholm syndrome hit Nazetrîme's player at some point and she turned out to be a regular player of the MMORPG in which the story is set. Meanwhile, Master Zen was trying to start a new guild with his ex-cellmate and a woman he befriended while in jail, and was a player short for this to be possible. The two became the franchise's first OfficialCouple (or at least one-way crush) barring a TheNotLoveInterest situation involving one of the protagonists and one of the top players.]]

* This is how [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Italy and Germany]] meet in one of the first episodes of ''Manga/AxisPowersHetalia'' set during UsefulNotes/WorldWarI. Germany captures Italy, and Italy, who is shown as a [[CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkey Pasta Eating Surrender Monkey]], is perfectly fine with that. Italy gets StockholmSyndrome. Then, in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, he comes back and wants to be on Germany's side this time…
** A [[WildMassGuessing WMG]] subverted example is of [[GentleGiant Sweden]] and [[{{Tsundere}} Norway]]. Historically, Sweden even before losing Finland was [[StalkerWithACrush adamant of gaining Norway]] and many times tried to [[IfICantHaveYou attack as a means of assimilation]]. He indirectly succeeded too when Denmark was forced to give up Norway and Sweden refusing to comply to Norway's LoopholeAbuse. Their relationship got better only to eventually become an averted case of ThisMeansWar nearing the end of the [[ArrangedMarriage union]].
** Another interesting case is Sweden (again, how appropriate) and Finland, in a strange inversion as Sweden is trying to be kind but Finland keeps interpreting his actions as malice. Ends up played somewhat straight since despite being (accidentally?) kidnapped as Sweden's "wife" Finland seems to end up liking him anyway.

* Nowhere is this more apparent than in Chapter 4 of the Film/{{Stardust}} fanfic "Endings". Yvaine has been forced into a marriage with Prince Septimus, who orders her around and emotionally abuses her every single day (He even takes the time to abuse her on ''the last day of his life''). He tells her she is allowed to leave if she can get down the steps of the castle, but when she finally does, he comes after her. She has literally nowhere else she can go, so she returns with him, starts falling in love with him, and eventually bears his children. [[Main/HereWeGoAgain At the end it's even implied that his son will repeat the process with another star that has just fallen to Earth]].

* ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'': At least kidnapping ''was'' Hayate's original plan. Having always been a Messiah-esque, wonderful little boy, he ends up [[DeusAngstMachina getting taken advantage of]] to the point where he gets ''fed up'' with optimistic ideas. He decides to finally "become a devil" and do something evil to get money. So he sets his sights on kidnapping Nagi, the rich little {{Ojou}}. Only… at every opportunity to do something evil, he [[MostDefinitelyNotAVillain ends up going back to his selfless, old habits, and treats her ]]''[[MostDefinitelyNotAVillain very]]'' [[MostDefinitelyNotAVillain nicely]]. To the point where his declaration that he wants to "run away with her (by kidnapping her)" causes her to misunderstand that he's confessing that he wants to elope with her. And she ''liked'' it…

* In ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', Natsumi enters into the plot with a naked Kotarou behind her and a few inches from digging his claws into her neck ([[NotWhatItLooksLike stop thinking those dirty thoughts]]), Kotarou was just scared after passing out and waking in a strange room. Anyway, guess who Natsumi later gets a crush on, who Kotarou forms a [[FirstKiss Pactio]] with, and [[spoiler:who the only two characters to have the name of their spouse confirmed in the epilogue are]]?

* Inverted in ''LightNovel/LogHorizon'': [[spoiler:Demikas]] abducted a Lander noblewoman, and not only he fell for her post-kidnapping, they even got married and now he's a HenpeckedHusband. The rest of the cast thinks that's hilarious.